About us

Leander Club is recognised the world over for its extraordinary achievements, having won more Olympic and World championship gold medals than any other club, and home to rowing heroes and to the champions of tomorrow.

Leander’s members enjoy a very socially active club that encourages good fellowship, celebrates success and values its heritage, stretching back to its formation in 1818.

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Corporate

Commercial partners engage with Leander Club and our International and Academy athletes for brand and relationship-building purposes.

As our story to 2018 and Leander’s Bicentenary unfolds, partners and other corporate clients are enjoying opportunities to entertain customers at Henley Royal Regatta and campaign events, or to row with our athletes.

Media

Leander delivers rowing athletes for Team GB. Twelve Leander athletes won medals in Rio (out of GB’s total of 26), retaining GB’s position at the top of the rowing medal table and bringing Leander’s total Olympic medal tally to 123.

The Club’s successes at both GB and Academy levels, together with various ongoing campaign events, deliver news stories throughout the year.

Women’s Eights Head 2016

The GB development crew face the cameras before the start of Saturday’s race

Leander’s women athletes were on top form at the weekend, when they raced a GB development eight to first place at the Women’s Eights Head in London.

Emily Carmichael, Fiona Gammond and Katherine Douglas joined forces with athletes from Reading RC and Tees RC, with Leander cox Erin Wysocki-Jones steering them down the 4 1Ž4 mile course from Mortlake to Putney.

A bitterly cold day greeted the capacity entry of 320 crews, with Imperial College leading the fleet in the absence of the GB senior crew who won last year’s race.

Priorities for our Olympic hopefuls now means avoiding racing on home waters, thus opening the door for Saturday’s winners to show their mettle.

GB U23 coach Pete Sheppard assembled the crew from talented athletes who are looking ahead to the Tokyo Games in 2020. Already there is towpath talk of the crew being entered as a second GB crew at the World Cup in Lucerne later this year.

“It was a good solid performance – we did what we needed to do” said stroke Katherine Douglas.

Despite starting well down the field the Leander composite crossed the line seven seconds clear

The crew had only practiced together in the boat for three sessions, after weeks spent in pairs, and also had the disadvantage of starting among the new entries, down the field, without the benefit of the fastest ebb tide.

Imperial finished second, with Molesey third, and Oxford Brookes fourth, while fifth place went to Cambridge University, who will race Oxford over the same course, in the other direction, on Easter Sunday’s Boat Race.